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luggage, kitchen; laundry and bathing room: in the wing, is a spacious dining hall for seating an hundred persons ': it has a chapel for morning and evening services arid where social, religious meetings are held every Wednesday evening under the care of Rev. E. T. Taylor : a reading and news room, with a good library to which accessions are daily making; and a store for the sale of sailors' clothing: the building and land cost about $ 38,000, and it has been furnished at a cost of about $ 21,000, by the generous contributions of the Unitarian Churches of Boston and vicinity; a good supply of water is on the estate, and two force pumps supply each of the stories with hot or cold water, as required.
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This is a noble edifice of 4 stories, erected by the Boston Port Society, and leased to the Seamans' Aid Society : it contains 40 rooms over the basement story : the building is 40 feet square, with a wing extending 70 feet of three stories; in the basement is a storage room for seamens'
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in 1999. In that same year, the house was rededicated "to the service of seafarers" by the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society; the two organizations merged in 1867.
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lists the date at 1938, but the Mariner's House website lists 1847.
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and operated as a boarding house for sailors by the
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Boston, Massachusetts
42°21′50″N 71°3′13″W / 42.36389°N 71.05361°W / 42.36389; -71.05361
99001302
North Square
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Seaman's Aid Society
Father Taylor
Greek Revival
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah Josepha Hale
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


ISBN
978-0-7627-4337-7
Boston Port & Seaman's Aid Society
"Mariners House"
Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston
Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Contributing property

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